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seine

[seyn] / seɪn /


VERB
trawl
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Many birds drown in purse seine nets each year.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

The fishing practices, including trawling and the use of gill and seine nets, were shown to cause physical pressures such as abrasion, smothering, siltation and total habitat loss.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

Using a seine, the Karuk Tribe fisheries team formed a circle and pulled up their catch.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2024

The most common method used to catch oily fish is known as "seine" fishing, one of the most environmentally friendly fishing techniques in use today:

From Salon Apr. 23, 2024

I walked afterward by the side of a seine two hundred fathoms in length, spread upon the grass in order to contract the meshes.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

Local communities believe that certain fishing practices, such as spearfishing with scuba gear and semi-industrial fishing with purse seines and night lights, are major contributors to the decline of fish stocks.

From Science Daily Nov. 16, 2024

Joining a flotilla of competing boats near Point Roberts, the Emancipator initiated a set and then began pulling in its seines.

From Seattle Times Mar. 2, 2023

Good carbon bargains tend to be seafood caught in midwater trawls and purse seines — nets that don't touch the bottom of the ocean.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2021

For three years researchers working in the Sound of Elsinore, Denmark, sampled fish with traps, seines, gillnets, push nets, fishing poles, bottom trawls, along with visual observations by snorkelers during the day and at night.

From Scientific American Feb. 3, 2015

“Oh, the river’s pretty,” he said, “but fishing’s hard work. You try hauling one of those seines up from the bottom sometime and you’ll find out.”

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

In the 1800s, when the pupfish swam throughout the valley, the Paiute peoples seined the fish for food.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2021

We seined under blue skies, taking in the squawking seabirds and miles of wild tidal beach.

From The New Yorker Dec. 26, 2016

He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the supporting cast were amateurs seined from Philadelphia dramatic groups, or girl friends of members of the crew stuck into the film just to maintain employee relations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes two little strings with a silver bead at one end were fastened to the mask, and seined as mouthpieces.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

But since Larry died, Ellie says she’s stuck mostly to purse seining and beach seining when she fishes with their adult sons, Luke and Kyle.

From Seattle Times Apr. 6, 2023

There are three methods these fisheries use to catch tuna: purse seining, longlining and pole-and-line fishing.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2021

These artisanal techniques are far less harmful than trawling, purse seining or driftnets – and than the reckless sport-fishing boats speeding at 10 knots, trailing long lines.

From The Guardian Sep. 13, 2020

Bluefin tuna are harvested on both sides of the Atlantic, using primarily harpoon and rod-and-reel in the west and seining nets and longline fishing in the east.

From Washington Times Aug. 29, 2018

The Ocean Queen was a stout, no-nonsense workboat built from thick planks of Alaska yellow cedar, rigged for long-lining and purse seining.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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